Data platforms and analytics
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Beyond Mouse and Keyboard: Novel Interaction for Visualization
Microsoft continues to innovate in the NUI space, continuously providing new modalities for interacting with our computing systems. We are leveraging our expertise in NUI and developing a radically new way for people to more…
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Data-Driven Storytelling
Practitioners increasingly use visualizations “in the wild” to tell compelling stories supported by data, and continually develop novel techniques that help integrate data visualization into narrative stories. The visualization research community has recently begun to…
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The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
Personal Information Management (PIM) is an activity in which an individual stores personal information items (e.g. files, emails and Web favorites) in order to retrieve them later. Despite the fact that PIM is a fundamental…
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From improving a golf swing to reducing energy in datacenters
2017 Swiss Joint Research Center kick off By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Recently, we celebrated an important milestone for our Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC). We welcomed top researchers from all partners…
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Personalized Behavior-Powered Systems
I will present work that leverages user behavioral data to build personalized applications, which I call “behavior-powered systems”. Two applications use online user interactions: 1) WebGazer uses interaction data made on any website to continuously…
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Data and Visualization Literacy
In this new era of fake news, viral content and social media, data literacy is crucial. Modern citizens in our age of information need to be data literate in order to make informed decisions that may…
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Partnership yields key breakthroughs in VR’s “grand challenge”
By Noboru Sean Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The potential for virtual reality (VR) to upend industrial design, medicine, and other specialized fields has now vaulted the emerging field into the ranks of…
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Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are…
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Improving Programmability and Performance for Mobile/Cloud Applications
The proliferation of datacenters, smartphones, personal sensing and tracking devices, and home automation products is fundamentally changing the applications we interact with daily. Modern applications are no longer limited to a single desktop computer but…
